Well its been a couple of years, but from what I remember its like this: A. Remove the saturns upper casing and inside of it clamp the little switch that tells the system if the drive is open or not with something to trick the system into thinking the drive isn't open. B. Put the burned cd on the disk drive and turn on the system. C. Pay attention to where the laser lens is, once it stops reading the inner section of the disc and starts heading for the outer rim, very quickly pull off the spining disc and put an original on. D. Once it is done doing that and begins to head twords the inner ring again quickly remove the original and replace it with the burned one. If all is sucessful the burned game should boot up. Also the model 2 saturn (round buttons) is harder to get the trick to work with then the first model (oval buttons), so you may have to try several times before you get the timing down. Good luck
Actually C is easy to do if you look at the time the cd-rom motor starts slowing down... it will read copy slow down (you swap) go fast, then slow you swap again about the time the sega logo appears
If you have an Action Replay 4-in-1 cart inserted in the system you're swapping, for some strange reason it makes the machine a LOT more forgiving on the timing of your swaps than if you had no cart inserted at all.
Funny you say that, we were doing the swap on Friday night, my friend whose been doing it said he can't get it to ever work with the Action Reply inserted. I dunno about watching the lazer, the way we do it you just listen for it's noise. Whatever, can still only to work it maybe 1 in 6 times.
doesn't magic cart v2 was deigned to make easier to swap the disc since it stops the motor completely so you can take time to swap the disc? maybe Yakumo can answer as I believe he has one?
Yeh but you still have to buy some games The Saturn laser units, especially the spindle, is built better than Sony's spindle so the life span will be longer compared to Sony's spindle which will start to break after a couple of swaps. Grant it, you are still shortening the life of the spindle, hope you have spare saturns lying around.
yep and I have crap load of JPN titles from my old days... not to mention many more saturn consoles... personally I never tried the swap trick - never had the need for it...and still don't.
Hmm, Swapping Saturn games is far easier that a PSX or at least for me. Now if you use the magic key 2 that will stop the drive and tell you when to change discs but not everyone has one of them so here's the guide to swapping Saturn discs as done on a Japanese model. 1 - insert your copy and switch on the machine. The disc will start to spin. Once it slows down to 1x speed, take it out and stick in the original. 2 - The original will now speed up to 2x speed then drop down to 1x speed. Just as it starts to go to 2x speed for the second time, take it out and put the copy back in. The game will now load. If needed I can make a video to show how easy and simple it is to do with a 100% success rate. Yakumo
i had such a hard time with the swap trick...right when u swap to the cdr give it a spin right when u swap it...usually will load right up
